From: franl@amulet.com (Fran Litterio) Subject: RE: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? 29 Jan 1997 13:14:03 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Original-Cc: "'Fergus Henderson'" X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Fergus Henderson wrote: >Jim Balter, you wrote: >> and/or the library >> could allow a special name form such as dos:filename that causes it to >> open the file in "text" mode. > >[...] (b) that still doesn't solve the problem of using Windows tools on >gnu-win32 text files. What problem is that? Windows tools work fine on gnu-win32 text files (i.e., text files without any ^M's) -- at least every Windows tool I have tried. David Korn's UWIN project has decided to open all files in binary mode all the time precisely because so few (if any) Windows apps care whether a text file contains ^M characters or not. -- Francis Litterio franl@amulet.com http://world.std.com/~franl/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".